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.\" $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/openbsm/bin/auditfilterd/auditfilterd.8#6 $
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.Dd October 3, 2006
.Dt AUDITFILTERD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm auditfilterd
.Nd audit filter daemon
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl d
.Op Fl c Ar conffile
.Op Fl p Ar pipefile
.Op Fl t Ar trailfile
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
daemon is an extensible audit event monitoring daemon, allowing pluggable
modules to track audit events from a live audit source.
It is configured using the audit_filter configuration file.
The source can either be a pipe or a file.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl c Ar conffile
Specify an alternative configuration file.
.It Fl d
Starts the daemon in debug mode \[em] it will not daemonize.
.It Fl p Ar pipefile
Specify a pipe as an alternative source of audit event records.
Default is
.Pa /dev/auditpipe .
.It Fl t Ar trailfile
Specify a file as an alternative source of audit event records.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/security/audit_filterd" -compact
.It Pa /etc/security/audit_filterd
Default configuration file for
.Nm .
.It Pa /dev/auditpipe
Default audit record source for
.Nm .
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr audit 8 ,
.Xr auditd 8
.Sh HISTORY
The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.\& in 2004.
It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
the OpenBSM distribution.
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
daemon and audit filter APIs were created by
.An Robert Watson .
.Sh BUGS
.Nm
is experimental, and should not be relied on in production.
APIs and services it offers can and will change in future OpenBSM releases.